Bloomberg "Valerie Plame Wilson, author and former CIA officer, discusses her new book entitled "Burned" and national security in the 21st century with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox on "Taking Stock." (Source: Bloomberg)" Channel…

Captured Benghazi Suspect Says He Was Inspired By Video (via Liberaland) Abu Khatalla, the captured suspected ringleader of the September 11, 2012 Benghazi attack, says it was the much-discussed video that inspired…

(By Sarah Lazare) A Pakistani official on Thursday slammed the CIA's fake vaccination drive in 2011 for fueling distrust of polio eradication campaigns and driving "attacks on polio workers" as the country…

(by Karen J. Greenberg via Tomdispatch.com) It’s mind-boggling. Torture is still up for grabs in America. No one questions anymore whether the CIA waterboarded one individual 83 times or another 186 times.…

The decision of the Obama administration and the resolution passed by Congress barring entry to Iran's designated ambassador to the United Nations has angered Tehran and provoked demonstrations in Iran. Hamid Aboutalebi…

State Department Official Freaks Out That Declassifying CIA Torture Report Might Make The World Angry (via Techdirt) While the Senate Intelligence Committee voted to declassify its $40 million, 6,300 page report detailing…

CIA: We Only Spied On Senate Intelligence Committee Because They Took Classified Documents That Prove We're Liars (via Techdirt) Earlier this week, we wrote about the accusations that the CIA was spying…

(By Peter van Buren via Tomdispatch) Terrorism (ter-ror-ism; see also terror) n. 1. When a foreign organization kills an American for political reasons. Justice (jus-tice) n. 1. When the United States Government…

(By Tim Cushing) Administration Officials Perform Some Very Public Handwringing Over Extrajudicial Drone Killing (via Techdirt) The administration has sort of painted itself into a corner with its new rules on drone…

Cenk Uygur at Young Turks makes the point that the National Security Agency and other US intelligence (services who are ending up with massive amounts of electronic surveillance information on Americans --whether…

Edward Snowden's revelations about the excesses of the National Security Agency have so far had no effect whatsoever on actual practices. But Ted Cruz's conspiracy to shut down the American government as…